Group Members

Academic and Research Staff

	Prof. Steven Woolnough
	Prof. Emily Black The hydrological cycle and its associated hazards Land-atmosphere interactions and their impact on climate African climate and rainfall monitoring
	Prof. Christopher Holloway Interaction between convection and the large-scale environment Tropical weather and climate Atmospheric convection and its organisation
	Prof. Andrew Turner Fundamental monsoon processes and observations Tropical variability and prediction Climate change
	Dr. Buwen Dong Coupled ocean atmosphere interaction Atlantic ocean variability and its impact on global climate Asian monsoon variability and predictability
	Dr. Gui-Ying Yang Dynamics of atmospheric circulation and interaction between extratropics and tropics Equatorial wave behaviour in observations and models Impact of equatorial waves on tropical high impact weather
	Dr. Linda Hirons Drivers of climate variability and change in Africa Sub-seasonal to seasonal predictability Climate services for society
	Prof. Richard Allan Current and future change in the global water cycle Earth’s radiative energy balance and climate Testing simulation of the Earth’s climate with observations
	Prof. Liz Stephens
	Prof. Pier Luigi Vidale High-resolution global climate modelling Land surface processes and biosphere-atmosphere interactions Quantification of risks posed by Tropical Cyclones
	Dr. Victoria Boult
	Dr. Soumi Chakravorty
	Dr. Chimene Daleu
	Dr. Akshay Deoras Indian monsoon (subseasonal-to-seasonal predictions, ocean-atmosphere-land interaction, dynamics and precipitation processes of monsoon depressions) Variability of tropical climate systems Dynamics of extratropical cyclones over North India
	Dr. Xiangbo Feng Tropical Cyclones
	Dr. Samantha Ferrett Equatorial waves and their links to high impact weather in Southeast Asia Representation of the tropical climate and weather in coupled climate models and forecast models Dynamics and teleconnections of modes of variability (e.g. ENSO) in the Tropical Pacific
	Dr. Kevin Hodges
	Dr. Kieran Hunt Synoptic-scale tropical dynamics Machine learning applications in meteorology Extreme weather events, particularly over south Asia
	Dr. Lauren James
	Dr. Eliza Karlowska Large-scale drivers of high-impact local events in the tropics in observations and models Madden-Julian Oscillation
	Dr. Robert Lee MJO metrics for climate models Tropical-extratropical teleconnections on sub-seasonal timescales
	Dr. Ross Maidment
	Dr. Paul-Arthur Monerie
	Dr. Daniel Shipley

PhD students

Shammi Akhter	Controls on the track and intensity of tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal
Dadimos Alemu	Drivers of sub-seasonal and seasonal climate variability over East Africa and Applications to forecasting
Dony Christianto	Interactions Between Regional and Local Circulations In Maritime Continent: Their Role in Convective Storms and Their Fidelity in Models
Juan Garcia Valencia	Sea surface temperature pattern influence on monsoon variability and change
Marimel Gler	Modelling and forecasting of the Indian Ocean Dipole
Max Mauerman
Elliot McKinnon-Gray	Equatorial waves as an untapped source of predictability in the tropics
Indrakshi Mukherjee	Understanding the potential for month-ahead prediction for monsoon systems
Douglas Mulangwa	Hydrological forecasting on the Victoria Nile in Uganda
Evet Naturinda
Natalie Ratcliffe	Using Aircraft Observations and Modelling to Improve Understanding of Mineral Dust Transport and Deposition Processes
Catherine Toolan
Mingming Zhang	Understanding drivers of multiscale variations in climate extremes over China